CIN · TE
Mike Gesicki
Mike Gesicki is a tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals. Depth chart: TE1.
Scouting report
Mike Gesicki: the full picture
Mike Gesicki at a glance
Mike Gesicki is a 30-year-old tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals, listed at 6'6" and 245 pounds. The Miami Dolphins drafted Gesicki 42nd overall in the second round in 2018, out of Penn State; this is year nine in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Gesicki at 121.6 PPR points for 2026, which ranks TE20 at the position and works out to 8.3 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 1 game of 2026, Gesicki has scored 18.8 PPR points, or 18.8 per game. That is 15.5% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Gesicki would finish with about 320 points, ahead of the 121.6 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 18.8 points in Week 1 against TB, the TE4 finish that week. Gesicki has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 1 of 1 game, a 100% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 33 qualified tight ends of 2026, Gesicki ranks in the 89th percentile in yards per target, the 77th percentile in target share and the 64th percentile in receiving yards. Two of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 20th percentile in average separation.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Gesicki has finished as TE7 in 2020, TE8 in 2021, TE23 in 2022, TE37 in 2023, TE13 in 2024 and TE41 in 2025. Three of those 8 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 165.0 PPR points in 2021. Across 122 regular-season games on record, the totals read 358 receptions, 3,911 receiving yards and 25 receiving touchdowns.
Mike Gesicki by the numbers
Gesicki has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 17 times and finished in the top twelve 25 times. The career high is 27.0 PPR points, set in Week 2 of 2020 against BUF. The game log also shows 3 100-yard receiving games. In all, Gesicki has reached 20 points in 8 games, 7% of career appearances.
Contract
Gesicki is playing on a three-year, $25.5 million contract signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2025, an average of $8.5 million per year with $6.5 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Gesicki carries a GV stock price of 3,656, which ranks 144th overall and TE27 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Gesicki 35th overall. Value has moved up 7.1 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are T.J. Hockenson, Isaiah Likely and Mark Andrews. See where Gesicki sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 121.6
- PPR / game
- 8.3
Mike Gesicki fantasy outlook
Mike Gesicki enters the 2026 season with CIN and ranks TE24 and #158 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 114.3 PPR points across 14.7 games, or 7.8 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a strong starter tier. The preseason depth chart lists Mike Gesicki as TE1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Mike Gesicki produced 70.7 PPR points in 12 games (5.9 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 61%, with a 50% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 1 projection
Mike Gesicki is projected for 6.8 PPR points at home against TB in week 1, with a likely range of 0.0 to 17.1.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 7.1 since the previous model run (rising).
- Redraft
- 58.4
- Dynasty
- 35.4
- Superflex redraft
- 66.7
- Superflex dynasty
- 49.4
- TE premium dynasty
- 35.2
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CIN | 1 | 7 | 5 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18.8 |
| 2025 | CIN | 12 | 42 | 28 | 307 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 70.7 |
| 2024 | CIN | 16 | 83 | 65 | 665 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 141.5 |
| 2023 | NE | 15 | 45 | 29 | 244 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65.4 |
| 2022 | MIA | 17 | 52 | 32 | 362 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 98.2 |
| 2021 | MIA | 17 | 112 | 73 | 780 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.0 |
| 2020 | MIA | 15 | 85 | 53 | 703 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 159.3 |
| 2019 | MIA | 15 | 89 | 51 | 570 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 136.0 |
| 2018 | MIA | 14 | 32 | 22 | 202 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40.2 |
Tight ends ranked near Mike Gesicki
- Dalton Schultz TE17 · 130.8 PPR
- Jake Ferguson TE18 · 129.6 PPR
- Juwan Johnson TE19 · 126.4 PPR
- Cade Otton TE21 · 120.6 PPR
- T.J. Hockenson TE22 · 118.9 PPR
- Brenton Strange TE23 · 118.6 PPR
Cincinnati Bengals fantasy players
- Ja'Marr Chase WR · 331.3 PPR
- Chase Brown RB · 260.7 PPR
- Joe Burrow QB · 212.5 PPR
- Tee Higgins WR · 193.0 PPR
- Andrei Iosivas WR · 100.0 PPR
- Colbie Young WR · 60.5 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.